5. Appraise the following statements and determine which is most valid in explaining the
reason for the decline of the Byzantine Empire.
a.) Military expansion and government spending bankrupted the empire
b.) Invasion from the Western Romans combined with drought
c.) Successful elimination neighboring rivals for trade routes
d.) The conversion of the empire from Islam to Christianity

Read these lines from "o captain! my captain! ". o the bleeding drops of red, where on the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and dead. how does whitman use the extended metaphor to refer to lincoln’s death? a. whitman compares lincoln’s death to what the death for all the soldiers was like. b. whitman compares lincoln’s death to the loss of one of the army generals. c. whitman compares lincoln’s death to the loss of losing a family member in the war. d. whitman compares lincoln’s tragic death to a captain lying dead on the deck of his ship.